"Seamus is among the hardest working and most dedicated journalists in this country and his commitment to community and charity work is second to none."
President, CTV News
Seamus O'Regan is the co-host of CTV's Canada AM, national morning show leader. He is from St. John's, Newfoundland, and was raised in Goose Bay, Labrador.
On Canada AM, he has interviewed such newsmakers as former U.S. president Bill Clinton, prime minister Paul Martin, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Shania Twain, William Shatner, Conrad Black and Prince. He is one of the few journalists to have interviewed four former prime ministers -- Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, John Turner and Joe Clark -- together.
Canada’s pre-eminent morning programme has taken him across the country and around the world, from NORAD headquarters inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado to Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. A good sport, he’s trained (briefly) with the Cirque de Soleil and piloted (very briefly!) a CF-18 jet fighter. He has twice hosted The Giller Prize – Canadian fiction's most coveted literary award – and the CTV special "The Next Great Prime Minister."
He was policy advisor and speechwriter to the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Brian Tobin and has worked as an assistant to Environment Minister Jean Charest in Ottawa. In 2007, Seamus became the first journalist to be named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40. In 1999, he was named to Maclean's magazine’s 100 "Young Canadians to Watch" in the new century. He has been twice nominated for a Gemini Award -- in 2004 for the Viewers' Choice Award and in 2005 for Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program or series.